Padres’ Peavy paves way

SEATTLE – Jake Peavy pitched three-hit ball for seven shutout innings and matched a season high with 10 strikeouts, leading the San Diego Padres past the Seattle Mariners 6-1 Friday night for their eighth straight victory.

The surging Padres, who lead the National League West at 26-16, improved to 17-3 in their last 20 games.

As usual, the 23-year-old Peavy (4-0) was tough on Seattle. He walked one and improved to 3-0 lifetime against the Mariners, extending his run to 21 2/3 scoreless innings against them.

Ramon Hernandez hit a solo homer off Ryan Franklin (2-5) and Brian Giles added a two-run double for San Diego.

Miguel Olivo hit a first-pitch homer leading off the eighth against Padres reliever Dennys Reyes, breaking up the shutout bid. Akinori Otsuka finished the five-hitter.

The Mariners were hitless until Richie Sexson’s hard bouncer up the middle leading off the fifth. Bret Boone got Seattle’s second hit, an infield dribbler toward third that stayed fair.

Hernandez hit his fifth homer on a 1-2 pitch with two outs in the second. Right fielder Ichiro Suzuki leaped at the wall, but the ball dropped into the second row beyond his reach.

The Padres took a 3-0 lead in the fifth, scoring two runs with just one hit. Geoff Blum hit an RBI single to score Sean Burroughs, who drew a one-out walk. Khalil Greene, aboard after being hit by a pitch, scored on Dave Roberts’ sacrifice fly.

Suzuki made a highlight-reel catch on that one, snagging the ball backhanded while sprinting toward center.

San Diego made it 6-0 in a three-run seventh, highlighted by Giles’ two-run double off Matt Thornton with two outs. The Padres finished with only four hits.

Franklin worked 6 1/3 innings, allowing five runs and three hits. He had five strikeouts but hurt himself with five walks, losing for the fifth time in six decisions.

Notes

Seattle right-hander Jorge Campillo made his major league debut, working the ninth. … Ichiro Suzuki has played in 118 straight games dating to July 11, the seventh longest streak in the majors. Baltimore shortstop Miguel Tejada is first at 797 games, dating to June 2, 2000. … Jake Peavy is 6-2 in interleague games. Last July 28, he gave up only three hits in eight innings when the Padres beat Seattle 6-0.

•Mariners catcher Dan Wilson had surgery to reconstruct the torn anterior cruciate ligament in his right knee. Doctors also discovered and repaired a small tear of the meniscus.

Rehabilitation is expected to take six to eight months. The 36-year-old Wilson was hurt May 4 while returning to first base after a fly ball against the Los Angeles Angels and went on the 60-day disabled list May 6.

A career .251 hitter coming into this season, Wilson was batting .185 with two RBIs in 10 games playing behind Miguel Olivo. The veteran has played in parts of 14 seasons, including 12 in Seattle.

•Former World Series MVP Pat Borders was back in Seattle’s clubhouse, where he’s become an off-and-on presence in recent years.

The 42-year-old veteran catcher rejoined the Mariners earlier this week in a trade with Milwaukee for cash. Seattle purchased his contract from Triple-A Tacoma and optioned backup catcher Rene Rivera to Double-A San Antonio.

In another move, left-hander Bobby Madritsch was transferred from the 15-day disabled list to the 60-day DL. He went on the DL on April 9, retroactive to April 7, with a strained throwing shoulder.

Seattle needed Borders because two other catchers, Wilson and Wiki Gonzalez, are out with injuries. Gonzalez went on the 15-day DL last weekend with a strained left hamstring.

That’s how Borders made it back to Seattle after hitting .245 in 26 games with Milwaukee’s Triple-A affiliate in Nashville, though he admitted the move caught him by surprise.

“I wasn’t really paying attention to what was going on, as far as injuries and all that,” he said. “In Triple-A, you just get as much sleep as you can, then you get to the ballpark and play.”

Borders, the World Series Most Valuable Player for Toronto in 1992, is in his 24th pro season.

Rivera was called up from San Antonio last weekend to back up Miguel Olivo but didn’t play with the Mariners.

“We didn’t want to keep Rene Rivera here as a backup catcher,” manager Mike Hargrove said. “He’s a young guy, a prospect who’s got a chance to play in the big leagues someday. The quickest and surest way for that to happen is to gain experience, get at-bats and play.”